The Tippit Case in the New Millenium

[Milo Reech]

For the Tippit experts: on the Walter Cronkite documentary played back by C-Span on 11-22-18, they interviewed witness Domingo Benavides. Benavides stated that Oswald went over and threw his spent cartridges in some bushes.

Benavides then said that he (Benavides) then retrieved the cartridges from the bushes and put them into a Winston cigarette package so as not to leave his fingerprints on them. Following that, Benavides gave them to police.

I had never heard anything about the shells being in the bushes. Plus Benavides said he called in on the police radio. Cronkite played the call-in tape, allegedly made from Tippit's radio. The voice did not sound (to me) like the voice of Benavides.

Cronkite did not ask how many shells Benavides recovered. Also, I think the shells were of two different brands.

Seems like there were a lot of loose ends in the Benavides rendition of his actions.

James Lateer

Thanks, I'm assuming this is the same at the c-span website:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?454599-1/c...ort-part-3

The voice making the citizen call belonged to Bowley whose presence was anathema to WC (Warren Commission) and therefore anathema to WC (Walter Cronkite) by dint of servile regurgitation, a feeble dupe who reached more wrong conclusions in the course of this documentary than seems humanly possible.

There is an item of interest worth examining. Bowley's voice enters around 11:05 ("Hello, police operator?") followed by the shooting information and disclosure of the correct address. At 11:32 a different voice cuts in with a wrong address ("a police officer, 510 E. Jefferson"). For some reason the dispacher, ignoring the correct address given by Bowley, immediately broadcast the wrong one ("Attention. Signal 19, police officer, 510 E. Jefferson.").

Sawyer A omits the intrusive voice altogether which produces the absurdity of the dispatcher broadcasting an address he did not receive (p.395). Ditto the transcript at McAdams' site (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/tapes2.htm). CE 1974 attributes the second address to the Citizen who gave the correct address a few seconds previously (p.53), which is ridiculous, but CE 705 gets it right (p.408): '(Some other unknown voice came in with "a police officer, 510 E. Jefferson").'

Whose voice is it? Move ahead to 13:00 and listen to Callaway. I think we have a match.

DJ, many questions I cannot answer, but one is easy.

Mentzel responds to this call with 222 also en route... I have to assume that "222" is the call sign fro patrol area 22 since there are no patrol areas with 3 numbers

222 was assigned to V.R. Nolan of the Traffic Division. Units 210 through 243 were reserved for accident supervisors & investigators.

As to the rest, yes, it is a bit much, but maybe not so much if a complete accurate transcript were available. Among the fragments we have the 510 E. Jefferson address is curious, located between Johnny Reynolds used car lot and the library. Did Callaway (or someone else) shove Bowley aside and blurt the misdirection (if so, why?), or is it an artifact brought about by tampering with or otherwise mis-processing the dictabelts?